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Hirosho (Hiroshima Shogyo) and Portland Fuji baseball teams (with two players from the Asahi junior team, the Cubs), posing with managers, coaches and other representatives in front of the stands at Vaughn Street Park (Recreation Park) at Vaughn Street in Portland, Oregon, July 31, 1931

Frank Fukuda, coach of the Portland Fuji, was a prominent figure in the development of Japanese baseball in the Pacific Northwest. From 1912 until 1927 he was a player, manager and coach of several Seattle baseball teams mostly within the Asahi Club. During this time he worked in a local Japanese bank, Seattle Shokin Ginko, working his way up from cashier to manager and finally vice president. When the bank failed in 1927, he moved to Portland, Or., to become the principal of the Portland Japanese Language School, where he continued to coach and manage young Japanese teams. While he was coaching in Portland and in Wapato, his teams consistently won league championships and the annual Fourth of July Japanese Baseball Tournaments (begun in 1933). Fukuda was often called upon for short-term coaching assistance to help area teams experiencing "slumps" and he even traveled to Japan on at least two occasions to coach teams there for short periods of time.

Arthur M. Prentiss was an American photographer who was born c. 1865 and died c. 1940. Prentiss worked in Oregon between 1913-1922. In 1917, he joined Benjamin Gifford, the most famous photograher of Oregon at that time, creating Gifford-Prentiss Inc. In 1922, Prentiss acquired the Weister Company Studio and his principal studio was on 45 Fourth Street in Portland, Oregon.